Paul Davis - Love Or Let Me Be Lonely

Paul Davis reached #40 with this song in Billboard, and the 45 has a unique section not on the album version (or any CD.) So I've been trying to digitally clean my 45 but it has a lot of record noise that can't be gotten out, and it gets noisier as the record continues on. Does anyone have a mint 45 that they could email a high-qual mp3 of (or send a WAV of, by pando or YouSendIt)? My friend offered to help me out, where we'd take the best parts of both 45s, and digitally edit, to get the best possible results.

This Paul Davis CD "Super Hits"

http://www.amazon.com/Super-Hits-Paul-Davis/dp/B001QCKJAC/re f=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1255617288&sr=1-2

contains the Top 40 hit "Love Or Let Me Be Lonely", but the song is not in Pat's database. Does anyone have this CD? If so, can you determine if this is the single version, or can you send me an mp3 so I can determine it? It actually has a whole 3rd verse that's not on the album version at all!

No, they're exactly the same length, which makes them hard to tell apart by looking at the labels (or the actual times). The 45 has the extra verse but takes out another section that would be in its place.

That's the album version.

Does anyone out their have his budget-line "Super Hits" CD? Pat, by any chance do you?

Hey - great news! I'm happy to report that the single version of Paul Davis' top 40 hit "Love Or Let Me Be Lonely" is finally coming out on CD - but we have to wait over 3 months - until July 26th when Wounded Bird releases a "Best Of Paul Davis" CD. It's the same as the original 1982 LP (with all his pre-Arista stuff) PLUS 12 BONUS CUTS! The bonus cuts include the 3 Arista singles, and I've received confirmation that "Love Or Let Me Be Lonely" is the single mix - with the unique bridge that starts at 2:20 - which is not on the album version at all.

I'm somewhat surprised this version hasn't come out before now, for 2 reasons specifically: (1) Wounded Bird released many Paul Davis albums on CDs with bonus cuts, but his 1982 album "Cool Night" (with this song) had no bonus cuts on the CD (nor this version). (2) Razor & Tie released a Paul Davis CD "Sweet Life: His Greatest Hit Singles" which included this song, yet unlike the CD title, this wasn't the "hit single" version at all. It was the album version.

Plus, when I was working on Rhino's "Radio Daze" series, this would have been on a future volume. But the series was canceled before any 1982 stuff came out on it. It was like one mishap after another. But now it'll finally be out, at long last.

Edited by EdisonLite